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A young spinner in Yazoo City boy at Turkey Knob Mine child labour
Two young boys work barefoot at large textile machines inside a factory, illustrating child labor in the United States during the early twentieth century.
Children hauling coal up the slope of an English mine; from an engraving of the 1840s.
See illustrator Joel Millerchip commissioned by Parliament to commemorate the Factory Act of 1833 with a banner, speaking of an event leading to its passage
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When Did Child Labor End in the U.S.?
The Progressive Era marked a turning point in child labor.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
See illustrator Joel Millerchip commissioned by Parliament to commemorate the Factory Act of 1833 with a banner, speaking of an event leading to its passage
Listen to illustrator Joel Millerchip discussing the passage of Great Britain's 1833...
Video: © UK Parliament Education Service (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

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A young spinner in Yazoo City
Overseer supervising a girl (about 13 years old) operating a bobbin-winding machine...
National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (LC-DIG-nclc-02093)
boy at Turkey Knob Mine
Boy employed by the Turkey Knob Mine, MacDonald, West Virginia, 1908, photographed...
National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (LC-DIG-nclc-01068)
child labour
Young boys working in a thread-spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-nclc-01581)
Children hauling coal up the slope of an English mine; from an engraving of the 1840s.
Wellcome Collection, London (CC0 1.0 Public Domain)
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